New Zealand opens $1.2bn Regional Infrastructure Fund applications for productivity, prosperity, and resilience.

New Zealand's government has opened applications for its Regional Infrastructure Fund, a $1.2 billion initiative that aims to drive regional productivity, prosperity, and resilience. The fund focuses on two main investment categories: resilience infrastructure, which improves regions' ability to absorb, adapt, and respond to stresses and shocks, and enabling infrastructure, which supports growth by ensuring regions are well-connected and productive. Councils, iwi, businesses, and community organizations with eligible infrastructure projects are invited to apply for funding.